Relating Radiative Seesaw Neutrino
And Dark Matter Mass Scales
Xiao-Gang He
1. Introduction
2. Radiative seesaw and dark matter Masses
3. Dark matter with SM symmetry only
4. A model of radiative seesaw and DM with SM symmetry
Work with Yi Cai, M. Ramesy-Musolf and Lu-Hsing Tsai
1. Introduction
There is about 20% of the energy come from dark matter in our universe.
What is the nature of DM is not known: WIMP, Axion, …
What is DM mass, not known, a big range is allowed.
DM must be stable, usually impose additional symmetry beyond SM symmetry,
such as R-parity in susy, Z2 symmetry in darkon model, …
Neutrinos have non-zero masses. In minimal SM, neutrinos do not have masses.
Need to go beyond SM to explain why neutrinos have small but non-zero masses.
Loop generation of neutrino masses, like Zee model…
Also the Seesaw models, Type I, Type II and Type III, and other variations.
All need to introduce new particles in the model. In general these new particles do
not play a role of DM. It would be good to relate them.
2. Radiative seesaw and dark matter Masses
E. Ma, PRD73:077301,2006 introduce right handed neutrinos NR and a new Higgs doublet
h
under Z2
NR -> - NR
h -> - h
h no vev, Z2 not broken. No usual seesaw
neutrino masses. One loop will generate them.
If neutral h is the lightest particle, it can be DM
If one of the N is the lightest, it is the DM
DM mass related to radiative seesaw neutrino mass scale.
Can one get rid off the additional Z2 symmetry? Just SM gauge symmetry can do the job?
3. Dark matter with SM symmetry only
M. Cirelli, N. Fornengo and A. Strumia, NP B753,178(2006)
Choose large SM representation with no color which cannot couple to SM
fermions and Higgs with renormalizable terms. The neutral component stable,
plays the role of DM. ---- Minimal Dark Matter
Smallest representations: n = (1, 5, 0)
Why? If n fermion, L: (1,2,-1/2), H: (1,2,1/2) -> L H: (1 + 3, 0),
Smallest n: (1, 4, ½) or (1,5,0).
If want Majorana mass term, not good to have (1,4,1/2).
If n scalar, HH*H: (2 + 3 + 4, ½), to avoid n to couple to this term,
The minimal should be (1,5,0)
The lightest n does not decay. Can be candidate for DM.
Co-annihilation produce the right relic DM density
Coupling is SU(2) coupling, known, the DM relic density will fix the DM mass
Require n to produce the DM relic density, the mass can be determined.
4. A model of radiative seesaw and DM with SM symmetry
Ma model + MDM
A new model: No additional symmetries other than SM gauge symmetry!
Radiative seesaw at one loop level
Needs more than one NR to get phenomenologically consistent neutrino masses.
Dark matter, assuming NR is the lightest
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From: M. Cirelli and A. Strumia, New J Phys. 11, 105005(2009)
Relic density: DM mass is about 9.6 TeV.
DM direct detection
Discussions
Since DM mass of order 10 TeV, not much can be done at LHC.
Flavour physics, like mu to e gamma may constrain the neutrino mass parameters.
With appropriate choices of new fields in the SM, without additional symmetries other
than the SM gauge symmetry, it is possible to have WIMP DM. The DM mass is
determined by DM relic density. This mass scale also determines the radiative seesaw
scale for generating non-zero neutrino masses.
Dark matter mass scale is naturally related to the radiative seesaw neutrino mass scale.
Relating Radiative Seesaw Neutrino And Dark Matter Mass Scales
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